Lead Auditor, Multi Standard
LRQA
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Birmingham • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Assess and verify clients’ management systems and operational practices against ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 requirements.
- Apply strong technical and sector-specific knowledge to evaluate organisational performance in quality management, environmental management, and occupational health and safety.
- Conduct rigorous, impartial audits to determine conformity, identify risks, and highlight opportunities for improvement.
- Support clients in enhancing operational effectiveness, strengthening governance, reducing environmental impacts, and improving workplace health and safety outcomes, contributing to more resilient, responsible, and high-performing organisations.
Requirements
- Lead and manage end‑to‑end certification audits against ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, ensuring full compliance with accreditation requirements, scheme rules, and LRQA procedures.
- Plan, coordinate, and direct audit activities, including managing audit teams where required, ensuring consistency, technical robustness, and effective evidence gathering.
- Conduct professional opening and closing meetings, clearly explaining audit scope, methodology, team roles, findings, and the basis for conclusions and recommendations.
- Produce high‑quality audit reports that are clear, comprehensive, and aligned with accreditation and scheme expectations—providing well‑evidenced findings, root‑cause insight, and opportunities for improvement.
- Undertake both onsite and remote audits, applying advanced audit techniques and digital tools to maintain the highest level of technical credibility and audit integrity.
- Make authoritative certification, continuation, suspension, or recommendation decisions in line with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and relevant certification schemes such as BRCGS or FSSC (where applicable).
- Act as a trusted technical partner for clients, building strong, long‑term relationships, understanding their operational context, and identifying value‑added opportunities and potential business growth.
- Provide guidance, coaching, and technical support to colleagues, sharing best practice and contributing to auditor development and continuous improvement of assessment processes.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple audits, meet deadlines, and support operational KPIs.
- Commitment to continuing professional development, maintaining auditor competence and sector-specific knowledge.
Benefits
- Diversity and Inclusion at LRQA: We are on a mission to be the place where we all want to work and we are passionate about embracing different perspectives because we understand the value this brings to our business, our clients and each other.
- We are all about creating a safer and more sustainable future and our inclusive culture is right at the heart of our business. Together our employees make our communities better and we want you to be part of our diverse team!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
ISO 9001ISO 14001ISO 45001audit techniquesevidence gatheringaudit reportingrisk identificationroot-cause analysisoperational effectivenessgovernance
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationorganizational skillsrelationship buildingcoachingtechnical supportteam managementprofessional developmentcontinuous improvementtime management
Certifications
BRCGSFSSC